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Quote by Virginia Woolf
As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it til

As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall. – Virginia Woolf

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If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully? – Virginia Woolf

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relationship
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Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say. – Virginia Woolf

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Truth
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. – Virginia Woolf

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You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. – G.K. Chesterton

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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason. They made no such demand upon those who wrote them. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Let’s hope the institution of marriage survives its detractors, for without it there would be no more adultery and without adultery two thirds of our novelists would stand in line for unemployment checks. – Peter S. Prescott

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[G]usto thrives on freedom, and freedom in art, as in life, is the result of a discipline imposed by ourselves. Moreover, any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others. – Marianne Moore (1887–1972), lecture, 1948

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The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever. – Paulo Coelho

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice. – Horace

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I rely on guns for protection in life. God does not say, This is la-la land. God doesnt say, Welcome to Earth. Everythings perfect. Theres no crime. Theres no murder. Theres no death. The world is imperfect, and you have to be on guard. – Luke Scott

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I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world. – Garry Kasparov

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